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There are 84 quotes for the author Adlai Stevenson

Quotations 21 to 40 of 84 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

I find Paul appealing and Peale appalling.

Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

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